CV

Last updated on 16^th August 2023

Education

• M.Eng. in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, 2023-2025

• B.S.(Honours) in Data Science, BNU-HKBU United International College, 2019-2023

  • Expecting a First class degree
  • GPA^*
    • In junior year: 3.96/4.0 (Rank as 1/98 in major)
    • For core courses: 3.86/4.0

Coursework

• Programming:
  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms(A), Data Mining(A), Machine Learning(A), Object-Oriented Programming(A), Quantum Finance and Intelligent Financial Trading Systems(A), Data Processing Workshop Series(A)
• Mathematical:
  • Optimisation Methods(A), Discrete Structures(A), Statistical Computing(A), Financial Mathematics(A), Calculus(A-), Linear Algebra(A-), Advanced Statistics (A-), Numerical Computation(A-)

Honor

• Nov2022: First Class of Scholarship
  • Intra-school
  • BNU-HKBU UIC
  • Awarded to students whose year GPA have achieved 3.83+/4.0（Top 4%)
• Nov2022: National Scholarship Nominees
  • Awarded to Top 4 students in comprehensive ability in major

Research experience

• Jun2022-Sep2022: Research Assistant
  • Artificial Intelligent Laboratory of Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University
  • Supervisor: Professor Haotian Lin^*
  • Duties included:
    • Designed and developed a multimodal learning model by using stained eye videos & images & tabular data of questionnaire to stratify dry eye symptoms, preventing unnecessary and complex checks.
    • Designed and developed a tree-based machine learning model on using images of OCTA to predict the amount of hemoglobin and adequacy of cure after dialysis in patients with kidney disease, for avoiding wounds to patients from blood routine examination.
• Feb2021-present: Research Assistant
  • Quantum Finance Laboratory of BNU-HKBU UIC
  • Supervisor: Doctor Raymond Lee^*
  • Duties included:
    • Play a role in a team that designed a novel network architecture Excitatory and Inhibitory Neuronal Synapse model (EINS), inspired by the Lee-Oscillator, which shows a significant improvement compared to GRU and LSTM in the declining speed and ultimate value of the loss, on doing time series regression task.
    • Designed and developed a DDPG based finance portfolio optimization system with a new designed network architecture on the actor of our model, explored the application of Quantum Price Level in risk control module by customizing state and reward function.

Competition experience

• Oct2022: Second Prize of Guangdong Province Division of Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM)^* | Leader, Coder
  • Around top 15% out of nation-wide competitors
  • China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • Developed a bearings-only passive location model of UAV cluster and an adjustment model based on reinforcement learning (Q-learning), to optimize the cluster adjustment strategy, for minimizing the transmitting frequency and keeping electromagnetic silence.
• Feb2022: Mertorious Winner of The Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM)^* | Leader, Coder
  • Around top 10% out of world-wide competitors
  • The Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications
  • Developed a quantitative finance model for constructing the optimized portfolio based on sharpe ratio.
• Sep2021: Second Prize of Guangdong Province Division of Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM)^* | Leader, Coder
  • Around top 15% out of nation-wide competitors
  • China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • Developed a genetic algorithm-based decision model for reducing raw material ordering and transportation costs in manufacturing companies.

Technical Projects

• Reinforcement Learning
  • A Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient based Stock trading system
• Natural Language Processing
  • Sentiment analysis and forecast of project completion on Donorschoose crowdfunding platform
• Computer Vision
  • Chinese License Plate Recognition Classifier
• Database/Software Design
  • A literature search platform based on Spark and ElasticSearch

Skills

• Technical
  • Proficient with: Python • R • C • Matlab • SQL • Latex
  • Familiar with: Linux • Java • Spark • Hadoop • Django
• Soft
  • Leadership • Motivator • Collaborator • Entrepreneur • Sports

Extracurricular activities

• Na Chau Ancient Village Conservation Project | Leader
  • Apr2021
  • UIC Volunteer Service Team
  • West Tangjiawan Town, Xiangzhou, Zhuhai, Guangdong
  • Duties included:
    • Lead a 10-member team to help the Village Historical Museum of Nazhou Ancient Village to make a tourism brochure, publicize and promote Nazhou, and promote the development of local tourism.
    • Team member task allocation, progress follow up and fund management
    • Provide field footage for tourism brochures.
• UIC Data Science Major Association
  • Sep2019-Sep2021
  • Head of the Outreach Department
  • Duties included:
    • Assist in holding the 2020 freshmen Welcome party, CDS academic seminar and weekly speech.
    • Provide sponsorship and support for the activities of the association.